Buckle



w. B. HA'YDEN.

Buckle.

Patented 1an. 18,1881.

fwd. 236,809.

UNITEDi STMESEr PATENT OFFrCE.

winnt/m4 B; HefYDEN, or COLUMBUS, omo.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,809, dated January18, 1881.

Application tiled May 7, 1880. (Model.)

To alt whom @t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. HAYDEN, ofColumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented anew and usefullmprovementinHarness-Buckles, of which the following is aspecication.

My invention relates to that class of harness buckles in which a beak orhook is provided by connecting the buckle with a ring or eye of asnaphook, and in which the strap is passed through loops and securedupon a stud that is formed upon the frame or body of the buckle.

The object of my invention isLto relieve the strap from an excess ofstrain atthe point where it is secured upon the stud, sincein buckles ofthis class, as heretofore made, an undue strain at such point hasoccasioned the frequent tearing of the strap; and a further object of myinventionis to keep the strap down upon the stud by carrying a portionof the strap itself over the stud, "so as to bear thereon and confinethe free end of the strap thereon.

To such endmy improvement consists, essentially, in elevating the barupon which the stud is formed between two loops in a buckle, hereinafterto be described, so that after the end of the strap has been passedunder the loops and then carried around the beak or hook, and thenceback to the stud upon which it istsecured, that portion of the strapwhich liesbetween the two loops will bear uponpthe top "the stud, ashereinafter more fully dehe. drawings, Figure l is a perspective viefialharness-buckle embodying my invent n. `Figr2is a perspective View ofthe buckle 'connected with a snap-hook, the strap being shown applied tothe buckle, but notl drawn tight.` Figl is a central longitudinalsection with the strap drawn tightin the buckle.

rlhe harness-buckle vherein illustrated consists of a skeleton-frame, inwhich A A are the side bars, connected atl their rear ends by a flat baror loop, B. These side bars terminate at their forward ends in a plate,C, in which is formed a rectangular recess, D, that gives lightnessl tosuchv portion. The forward end of this plate is reduced in widthso as toform a tongue, that is bent upward and then back to constitute the hookor beak E of the buckle.

The metal of the side bars is raised, as at the points f f, and suchraised portions connected by a middle bar or loop, F, which lies at apoint between the rear loop, B, and the beak or hook. Between thismiddle loop, F, and the rear loop, B, the side bars are connected by across-bar, G, which is slightly curved in cross-section. 0n thiscross-bar is formed the stud H, upon which the end of the strap H is tobe secured. Those portions of the side ba'rs which are between the rearand the middle loops ot' this buckle are not madev straight, but arecurved upward, as at I, so as to elevate, to a certain extent, betweensaid loops, the bar upon which the stud is formed, and hence so raisethe stud that its top end is about in the same plane as the top side ofthe rear loop, B. The advantage of thus elevating said cross-bar andstud will be seen by referring to Fig. 3, in which the strap is shownapplied to the buckle.

The manner of applying the strap is as follows: Its end is first passedunder the two loops and over the stud, then carried around the beak,upon which a ring or snap-hook has been preyiously caught, and thenpassed back under the buckle to the cross-bar having the stud, at whichpoint the said strap end is slightly raised. through the skeleton-frameand caught upon the stud. If, now, the strap be drawn tight, it will liein the position shown in said last-mentioned figure.

It will be observed that while the end of the strap iscaught upon andYheld by the stud a portion of the rear part of the strap rests upon thetop of the stud, and that such portion of the strap as is locatedbetween the two loops lies in the line of an arc of a circle. This notonly prevents the end of the strap from accidental disconnection fromthe stud, but also relieves the stra-p from a greater portion of thestrain at its point of connection with the stud, and hence obviates thetearing of the strap.

It will also be seen that the strain upon the strap is distributed fromits point of connection with the stud around the buckle, so that underany circumstances it will be impossible to tear the strap from the studto which it is fastened It will also be noticed that by forming therecess in the plate near and under the beak or IOO hook, as hereinshown, the necessity of employing a core in casting such portion of thebuckle is avoided.

What I claim is- The herein described buckle, composed of two side barsconnected by a rear end and a middle loop, and terminating at theirforward ends in a recessed plate, bent at its reduced end into a hook orbeak, and the elevated cross-bar connecting raised portions of the sidebars at points between the two loops, and provided with a stud uponwhich the end of I the strap is secured, said cross-bar and stud beingelevated, so that after the strap has been passed under the loops andaround the beak and secured upon said stud the straps lying between theloops will bear upon the stud and confine the free end of the strapthereon, substantially as described.

WILLIAM B. HAYDEN.

Witnesses N. B. MARPLE, LORENZO D. HAGERTY.

